Tom has more than twenty years of experience as responsible for Marketing and Communications at large and medium sized companies such as IBM Denmark, BEC and HTS (now Danish Industry).
Besides his role as Marketing and Event Manager at ITAMOrg, Tom runs a consultancy helping IT organizations work professionally and continuously with market communication.
Sourcing, Procurement, Finance, Vendor and Asset Management Strategies Did your last software negotiation or cloud deal achieve the right business outcomes? Are your sourcing and procurement processes evolving fast enough to increase agility? How quickly can you...
During the latest state legislative cycle — which is mostly wound down for this year — lawmakers considered nearly 20 bills centered around a concept known as the "right to repair." None of them actually passed, but the attempt in Minnesota got closer than most....
Groundbreaking cloud migration analytics platform speeds digital transformation “How can you get us to the cloud faster?” is the question every IT executive is asked in every meeting. Our acquisition of RISC Networks has made it a lot easier to answer. RISC Networks’...
The establishment of local data centres by large global cloud providers has opened up possibilities to many South African businesses. However, moving into the cloud can create some complexities, specifically around software licensing. As you move into the cloud, the...
When Microsoft announced that the rights to deploy the perpetual Office client for From SA Clients were being removed, we were astonished. The impact of this decision was going to be very significant for many of Microsoft’s clients. We are therefore now delighted to...
Adobe is warning some owners of its Creative Cloud software applications that they’re no longer allowed to use older versions of the software. It’s yet another example of how in the modern era, you increasingly don’t actually own the things you’ve spent your...
The government has confirmed its long-standing public cloud-first policy is under review, and that it is seeking to launch an alternative procurement framework to G-Cloud. But why? It is hard not to read too much into all the change occurring in the public sector...
Look for e-Stewards, R2, and ISO 14001 certifications in your IT asset disposal partners Reliability, scalability, and reduced costs are buzzwords that every data center professional has become well-accustomed to in an age where the cloud is one of the most prominent...
SoftwareONE, a global leading Platform, Solutions and Services company, announced that it has recently acquired SAMSentry, a software governance technology. The technology will be incorporated into SoftwareONE’s managed services portfolio, to work in conjunction with...
April 1st, 2019, Reading UK & New York NY: Livingstone Technologies, the global leader in Software Asset Management (SAM) services, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the SAM business assets of New York based Siwel Consulting, Inc. Under the...
The unknown presents the greatest danger. The federal IT ecosystem is unrelentingly complex, making it that much more critical for federal agencies to achieve as much visibility into their IT resources and resources as possible. This knowledge is vital for agencies to...
Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, which created the notion of "commercial items" for government procurement. FASA was designed to circumvent the government's previous requirements to issue detailed specifications...
In 2018, the federal government budgeted a staggering $95.7 billion dollars on IT, much of which to be spent maintaining unused or out-of-date software. Such waste is always more keenly decried when the cost is covered by the tax payer. To limit and regulate the...
Auditors also found the agency bought a software product without testing that it worked for its intended purposes. It didn’t. IT management shortcomings led the IRS to waste millions of dollars on licenses and subscriptions for software agency officials never used,...
Changes in cloud deployment models are forcing a rethinking of IT’s role, along with the demand for new tools and expertise For a time, IT seemed to be underappreciated or simply bypasssed. With a swipe of a credit card, some business units and developers found a...
Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Oracle Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled decisions in Google's favor that APIs are not copyrightable...
The UK's big four accounting firms have been accused of a conflict of interest by investigating their own clients' use of software on behalf of technology firms. The so-called Big Four - PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte - carry out software audits on their clients on behalf...
Public sector IT group hits out at Microsoft price rises and has some criticism of the role of resellers in communicating it Microsoft's price increases have not gone down well with public sector customers and the channel has also come in for some criticism for...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s government signed a new software supply deal with Microsoft on Tuesday, three months after saying it would not renew its contract with the firm due to a change in license terms that would have doubled its price. In a statement, the...
A Microsoft sweep of PC test purchasing revealed that more than four in five (83%) brand new PCs in targeted countries in Asia are loaded with pirated software. The PC samples selected were purchased from retailers that offered PCs at much lower cost and free software...
Dive Brief: - Procurement and IT are increasingly working together to source new technology, according to a survey of 150 executives conducted by ProcureCon IT and Insights World Business Research. - Asked which department is responsible for IT sourcing, 57% of...
New York - In a massive deal that could reshape cloud computing, IBM is acquiring open software company Red Hat for $34 billion. The companies called the deal, which still needs approval from shareholders and regulators, the "most significant tech acquisition of...
The move is seen as yet another push by the company to steer customers to Office 365, which is sold on a subscription basis and is more lucrative for Microsoft long term. Microsoft raised prices for the retail versions of Office 2019 by as much as 10% when it began...
Microsoft took a step toward eliminating more app bloatware – well, some of its own app bloatware – with one of the earliest builds of next year’s upcoming Windows 10 19H1 update. For Insider build 18262 of Windows 10, Microsoft said it would allow users to uninstall...
- Customers will benefit from the combined company’s expanded scale, with locations and local-language teams across 88 countries and support across 150 countries - The combined company will be home to more than 5,500 highly experienced employees, forming the...
Itasca, IL - Sep 26, 2018 - Flexera announced today it has acquired RightScale, the recognized industry leader in multi-cloud management and cost optimization. This gives Flexera the top technology asset management offering across software, hardware, SaaS and cloud...
I've unintentionally referred people towards purchasing pirate license activation keys for Windows 10 through Amazon in Canada. I'd like to explain exactly how this happened. I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice on Windows product licensing or any other...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has asked industry to submit ideas that can support a business case analysis for a system intended to manage information technology assets. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says DISA is considering the development of a potential...
The Israeli government said it will not renew a contract for various Microsoft desktop software at the end of the year, Reuters reported. The government said a change in the licence terms would double the price. Under its current framework agreement with Microsoft,...
BSA is "The Software Alliance", the "principal trade association for the world’s most innovative software companies" and while it is famously known for its "compliance programs that promote legal software use", the organisation also "advocates for public policies that...
Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 “as a service”. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happen…...
Oracle’s latest financial results illustrate that the core businesses of many of the software behemoths of the past are under strain For Oracle, despite more than $35bn of acquisitions over seven years and shiny new cloud products, its revenues have increased by only...
The number of procurement professionals prioritising cost-cutting has halved over the last three years, a survey has found. The Advanced Procurement Trends Report found just 40% of respondents said cost-cutting was their main objective, compared to 80% three years...
IT and procurement often find themselves at each other’s throats, but the two functions have many similarities that escape the first glance. By finding common ground, IT and procurement can team up to bring several lucrative improvements to the broader business,...
Microsoft will be making a series of changes across our program and product portfolio to provide unique offers that support customer digital transformation, improve the buying and selling experience, and make it easier to do business with Microsoft. We continue to...
Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom Inc. is buying New York City-based software firm CA Technologies for $18.9 billion (all figures USD), in a bid to create what the former calls “one of the world’s leading infrastructure technology companies.” The news was announced...
From running daily reports, to moving and backing up files, automation in IT is key in speeding up operations and standardising the way repetitive tasks are executed. Governance and security are improved through automation, and although human input is still required...
Gartner Analysts explored GDPR challenges and observed that many organisations are still not compliant with GDPR legislation even though it has been in force since May 2018. This is because they have not properly audited data handling within their supplier...
In a world of ever-changing technology, how do you keep up with the demands of a business strategy spread across multiple business units in a way that addresses each unit’s unique needs while providing the benefits offered with oversight and consolidation of...
The conversation surrounding Artificial Intelligence and its potential applications is among the most intense within today's organizations. At once fearful and hopeful, it's a conversation that's ignited passionate debate for over half a century. Even after all that...
Microsoft announced yesterday that it is buying the code-sharing site GitHub, a developer-focused startup that has become a crucial part of the programming industry, for $7.5bn. Patrick Carey, Director of Security Strategy at Black Duck by Synopsys commented below....
Reading, UK, 4 June 2018 – Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) today announces that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Livingstone Technologies Limited (Livingstone) from a group of its founding investors. Equity for the...
Oracle is its own worst enemy when it comes to its cloud ambitions. Oracle's IaaS and PaaS businesses have registered tepid growth, despite a market that keeps dramatically lifting Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. There are, of course,...
Private equity firm KKR is broadening its technology reach as it acquires BMC Software from a Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital led investor group. Private equity firm KKR said it will acquire BMC Software from an investment group that includes Bain Capital, Golden...
So, for those of us who don't know, I'm a bit of an amateur copyright buff, especially in the field of open license. I took a one-semester class on copyright law under the late Dennis Karjala as part of an interdisciplinary program (I am not a lawyer), but even before...
Strong alignment around customer time to value, experience and industry vision cements deal as Flexera drives further consolidation in SAM market ITASCA, Ill., May 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold,...
Flexera, the Itasca, Illinois-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers....
The cloud-based service management company has extended its reach in IT asset management to help businesses optimise cloud subscriptions ServiceNow has agreed to acquire software as a service (SaaS) management company VendorHawk to help businesses licence software...
The outsourcing market already reached ever new record levels in the past, both domestically and internationally. The number and complexity of provider agreements keeps increasing, so do the challenges for the IT procurement department. Not only does the latter have...
An IT company is suing Nike for violating its software licensing agreement (SLA). It claims an audit determined the athletic apparel behemoth was using pirated software and cracked keys. It looks like Nike doesn’t have as big a problem with ‘knockoffs’ as it’s led us...
How enterprises are completely ignoring the security activity that could help the most The more a company can tell me about their assets the better their security is, and the more comprehensive and realtime the inventory is, the more mature they are. This has been...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 25, 2018 – ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) today announced it has agreed to acquire Seattle‑based VendorHawk, a leader in Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) management, in an all‑cash transaction expected to close this month. With VendorHawk, ServiceNow...
All of us at Flexera are incredibly proud to announce that Flexera has been named as a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools! In this first ever SAM Magic Quadrant, Gartner positioned Flexera as a market “Leader” (upper right...
By 2020, the installed base of Internet of Things devices is forecast to grow to almost 31 billion worldwide. More than 65 percent of enterprises will be deploying IoT products by that year, according to a report by Gartner. In its IoT analysis, Gartner notes that...
If incorporated correctly at your organisation, audits can help educate staff on best practices and facilitate change. Digital transformation programs are typically very complex, costly, and risky to the business – both in execution and delivery. For publicly traded...
Local businesses could be putting themselves at risk through a lack of adequate software asset management tools and processes. This is according to ITWeb's Software Asset Management Survey conducted in partnership with Deloitte and Snow Software. The survey examined...
The back-and-forth legal battle between Oracle and Google over the extent to which copyright law protected the Java programming language swung back Tuesday in Oracle's favor. In the latest development in the eight-year case, a federal appellate court reversed a jury...
We've made the point for a long time that, on a long enough timeline, pretty much everybody is a pirate. The point is that the way copyright laws have evolved alongside such useful tools as the internet makes knowing whether common sense actions are actually copyright...
Almost 30 cases of unlicensed software use were settled in Australia in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 100%, leading to a total damages bill of more than $347,000. The biggest single settlement came from a Western Australia-based energy company that settled for more...
Cloud storage and collaboration platform details cost savings that resulted from migrating onto its own platform. About two years ago, Dropbox moved most of its data – including users’ data – from Amazon Web Services, which it had relied on since its founding, to its...
Digital transformation is a top priority across organizations of varying sizes and industries as they strive to remain competitive in a market that values speed to market and accessibility of information. As a result, leadership is now – more than ever – looking to...
This week, the European Commission is organising the 2nd annual conference of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform under the title “Delivering on the Circular Economy – What's Next?”. One of the focuses of the discussion will concern the IT sector, and...
Pioneer and sustainable waste advocate Eric Lundgren has been slapped with a hefty 15-month jail sentence and a $50,000 fine for burning 28,000 copies of Windows recovery discs intended for distribution with refurbished PCs. Lundgren said he was attempting to reduce...
The deadline for GDPR is looming – GDPR is the new Data Protection legislation which comes into force in May to protect personal privacy and sharpen up companies’ reporting of data breaches. By now, with only a few weeks until the new rulings become law, many...
If you ask someone to name a handful of highly innovative companies, Apple is almost certainly one of the first to spring to mind for many people. But Porsche, the car manufacturer, might not be – and yet Apple and Porsche share a business strategy that defines...
Kodiak Rating’s CTO was recently in attendance at a Procurement Leaders event held in London, titled DITx — Data Intelligence and Tech Forum. As written by Procurement Leaders, “DITx is Europe’s ONLY event specifically designed for procurement professionals wanting to...
Many organizations that perform software asset management opt for convenience. They rather focus on easy-to-manage products than on the software they spend the most on. This creates a false sense of security, while in reality enormous financial risks lurk. Software...
the premier summit for advanced-level software license management practitioners At SAM Summit London, attendees gain the knowledge and insight they need to grow their compliance programs, avoid costly audits, and optimize their software spend. A full 3-track program...
ITAM, CCRM and DevOps - The bedrock of Service Management This is the premier UK event on Change, Release, Configuration and IT Asset Management. The conference will have 3 streams throughout the day, an exciting keynote to bind them together, and plenty of...
Every year the International Business Software Managers Association survey our member organizations on the state of their software asset management programs. (More than 2,000 organizations have participated in our SAM survey study over the past 11 years!) We ask SAM...
As 2017 was coming to a close, Rimini Street quietly completed its quest to become a publicly traded company. But the firm, which provides third party support for DB2 for i and JD Edwards customers, didn’t go public through an initial public offering. Instead, it...
Nearly all (94 percent) hardware firms have invested in software development in the past five years, and 88 percent believe the internet of things is driving growth within the manufacturing industry. IBM had to do it. Oracle is in the process of doing it. Lots of...
Cable operators and other telecommunications providers are about to face a largely overlooked challenge in their migration to network functions virtualization (NFV) environments, said Don Clarke, principal architect of network technologies for CableLabs. “Software...
Many IT organizations think it’s too difficult to take on software asset management (SAM), also called software license management (SLM). They think that it’s too expensive to do (especially when they assume an expensive SAM technology is required), is people...
Subscription- and usage-based pricing are all the rage these days. So how are companies becoming even more creative in their software pricing and licensing? Although a lot of innovation is starting to happen, much more appears to be in store over the next couple of...
When a customer got into a dispute with the software vendor about the license fees, the resulting case reads like a cautionary tale about software licensing. In ProPurchaser.com Inc. v. Wifidelity Inc., 2017 ONSC 7307 (CanLII), the court reviewed a dispute about a...
The annual industry show SAMS USA 2018 combines distinguished expert keynotes and interactive world café round tables, private discussion rounds, networking sessions and vendor-free audit debates. Following Europe’s most influential SAM event series, the Software...
SAM Maturity | Reducing Software Costs The 6th annual Software Asset Management Strategies Europe 2018 combines distinguished expert keynotes and interactive world café round tables, private discussion rounds, networking sessions and vendor-free audit debates. SAMS...
Gartner IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor & Asset Management Summit is Europe’s most important annual gathering of IT and business professionals who strategize, engage and work with IT service and technology providers to realize their organizations’ technology and...
In retail banking, as in any sector, legacy IT can eat up budgets; limit the CIO’s flexibility to innovate; and reduce the talent pool for technical development. But there are solutions to help break the legacy chains. Peru’s survey of Retail Banking IT leaders ‘Turn...
Companies face many risks when it comes to data breaches. Some occur digitally; some occur when a piece of hardware is stolen from the site. But the one we tend to hear about least often is the risk of IT Asset Disposal. If you’ve never seen a line of kindergarteners...
The CPU inside your computer contains its own software installed by the CPU manufacturer. This software is used to bootstrap your computer, for example by configuring the hardware before control is handed over to the operating system. To provide for remote management...
The rise of shadow IT, shortcomings in the cloud, security breaches — IT leadership is all about navigating hurdles and deficiencies, and learning to adapt to inevitable setbacks. Sometimes the truth hurts. It can be hard to admit that you've lost control over how...
IT & Software Asset Management conference is an annual convention in managing software licenses. The theme of this 14th edition (first edition to be held in Belgium) is ‘innovation and continuous improvement’. We live in a rapidly changing and digital world....
Microsoft in UK West and South regions suffering from capacity issues Multiple Microsoft customers have for the past nineteen hours been unable to provision new virtual machines in Azure's UK West and UK South regions. Although there has been no formal notification on...
At Sapphire, SAP announced improved transparency about license compliance and licensing terms and Hala Zeine wrote at some length on the new terms in a piece entitled Modern Pricing for Modern Times over on the SAP.com website. The news offered little solace to most...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) and Black Duck Software, Inc. have signed a definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire privately held Black Duck, a leader in automated solutions for securing and...
(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) has sued Apple Inc (AAPL.O), alleging that it violated a software license contract to benefit rival chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O) for making broadband modems, the latest salvo in the longstanding dispute between Qualcomm and Apple....
Halloween is right around the corner. Costumes, candy, trick or treat — every shadow is a potential fright, every bump a ghost! Halloween comes once a year, but for your organization, invisible threats to your data and productivity happen daily. While the news is...
Wherever you turn, you will hear the word Integration in some way or the other, and when you start to think a bit more about it, you discover, that Service Integration is a major part of our daily workings - everywhere you look. This is towards the business, the...
Crayon announces its intention to launch an Initial Public Offering and apply for a listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo, 11 October 2017: Crayon Group Holding ASA* (together with its subsidiaries "Crayon" or the "Company") today announces its intention to launch...
A new report from the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has found that the agency’s software license management program is noncompliant with both its policies and industry best practices. The report looks at USPS efforts to manage its software license management...
In the 2017 report Disruption in Software Business Models Creates New Opportunities for Monetization, Gartner analysts say it all, in just one sentence: “Technology strategic planners will find next-generation software monetization is not about protection, limited to...
Is the cloud making things simpler or more complicated for your organisation? Earlier this year, I challenged our Snow Software sellers to introduce a simple question into their conversations with senior IT and business leaders across the world. Short and simple, I...
The benefits of a comprehensive IT asset management (ITAM) program may seem obvious since it provides the data needed to strategically and tactically manage the life cycle of IT assets from purchase to end of life. Of course, companies can leverage IT asset management...
Flexera acquisition will create the world’s largest technology asset data platform, transforming how software is bought, sold, managed and secured Itasca, IL. and Mountain View, CA - Sep 12, 2017 - Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold,...
Cloud offers the public sector an opportunity to put users back at the heart of the procurement process, according to Chris Wilson, managing director of adam – but only if they also change their culture to one where sharing information is welcomed rather than feared....
Public agencies have been working to improve how they find and purchase technology for decades, and yet one of government’s most sensitive pain points remains, in the words of San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath, “procurement, procurement, procurement.”...
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